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Appalachian, a. and n.|æpəˈleɪtʃɪən|
Also 7 Apalatæan, Apalatean, 8– Apalatchian, Apalachian.
A. adj.
1. Designating or forming part of an extensive system of mountain ranges in the eastern United States, stretching from the northern border with Canada to Georgia.
[1607Capt. Newport's Discoveries in Alvord & Bidgood First Explorations Trans-Allegheny Region (1912) 28 Mountaynes Apalatsi.] 1672W. Talbot tr. Lederer's Discoveries in Three Marches from Virginia 2 The Apalatæan mountains..are barren rocks. 1682T. Ash Carolina 34 It's supposed..that the Apalatean Mountains..yields ore both of gold and silver. 1743M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. p. v, The Apalatchian Mountains have their southern Beginning near the Bay of Mexico. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 59 They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family. 1853W. G. Simms Sword & Distaff 47 The mountain rangers from that section of the Apalachian slopes. 1863J. D. Dana Man. Geol. iv. vi. 724 The Appalachian chain varies much in directions southwest of New York. 1917C. J. Sharp in Campbell & Sharp Eng. Folk Songs S. Appalachians p. iii, The Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America. 1951W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun iii. i. 246 The long looping skeins of electric lines bringing electric power from the Appalachian mountains. 1985Washington Post 12 Dec. (Maryland Weekly Suppl.) 1, Every August.., Jim Fazenbaker used to head for Western Maryland's rugged Appalachian foothills.
2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of these mountains, this region as a whole, or its inhabitants.
1763tr. Le Page du Pratz's Hist. Louisiana II. i. 7 The Apalachean beans are so called because we received them from a nation of natives of that name. 1860Historical Mag. (U.S.) Feb. 40/1 (heading) Specimen of the Appalachian language. 1878R. J. Hinton Hand-bk. Arizona 54 A series of limestones, shales, sandstones, and conglomerates totally unlike that which has been established in the New York and Appalachian province. 1904Amer. Jrnl. Sci. Feb. 150 The folding in the rocks of the area is of three types: minute crinkling, small unsymmetrical wavy folds, and broad Appalachian ones in which the adjustment appears to have taken place along the bedding. 1906V. A. Lewis Rep. Dept. Archives & Hist., W. Virginia 31 The Potomac Area, the South Appalachian Area, and the Ohio Valley Area. 1941Amer. Speech Oct. 180 Ned for bacon or salt pork, set his hoss, a gambling stake, are variously Appalachian. 1964Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 24 Apr. (1970) 121 We arrived at the Tom Fletcher home, chosen to illustrate the human toll the declining mining industry has taken on these Appalachian families. 1974Florida FL Reporter XIII. 34/3 So opponents of the status quo in the USA could similarly ‘authorize’ promoting Black or Appalachian English as the single national norm. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 581 Appalachian meat pie and beer-batter shrimp are other dinner items. 1985N.Y. Times 21 Dec. i. 52/4 A lovely rendition of the Appalachian folk song ‘I Wonder as I Wander’.
3. Appalachian revolution [revolution n. 6 c], the formation of the Appalachian Mountains in eastern N. America.
1856J. D. Dana Amer. Geol. Hist. 16 The deposits, with small exceptions, were a single unbroken record, until this Appalachian revolution. 1915Pirsson & Schuchert Text-bk. Geol. ii. xli. 749 During the Appalachian Revolution much of eastern North America was again thrown into pronounced folds.
B. n.
1. pl. The Appalachian mountains.
1834Penny Cycl. II. 178/2 The rivers which rise in the Appalachians, flow in long valleys between the chains. 1917Campbell & Sharp (title) English folk songs from the Southern Appalachians. 1954Lefler & Newsome North Carolina ii. 19 The third physical region of North Carolina embraces the mountains of the Southern Appalachians. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 1016/1 The highest altitudes in the Appalachians are in the northern division.
2. A native or inhabitant of the Appalachian area.
1888S. Wallace Land of Pueblos 277 The Pimo Indians..are dark brown, differing in complexion from the Appalachians east of the Rocky Mountains and the olive hues of the California tribes. 1973Black Panther 8 Sept. 4/3 Most Black people in Appalachia live in worse conditions than White Appalachians. |